From house demolition to mosquito releases: The week’s strangest stories

Bob the builder is going to be horrified when he hears about Erik Pierwazarsquos stunt of angrily tearing down his family home in Pennsylvania USA with an excavator after his wife told him their marriage was overWith the incident garnering attention this week police say his wife and two daughters were still inside the house when he began tearing into itHis violent reaction has blown people away literally After a night of drinking Pierwaza used a construction excavator to partially demolish his own propertyldquoIf itrsquos over Irsquoll tear the house downrdquo says the 48yearold Luckily the family members who were still inside didnrsquot get injured with the wife managing to call 911 in timeAuthorities said the damage was so severe that the homersquos structural integrity was compromised and the building may need to be completely demolished Relationship experts recommend communication not heavy machineryDebugging USrsquos mosquitoesGoogle wants to release 32 million mosquitoes PICISTOCKGoogle wants to release 32 crore mosquitoes in the airs of Florida and California under their new public health project Google and public health in the same sentence sounds weird anyways However they are seeking federal approval to breed and release swarms of mosquitoes carrying an infection harmless to humans The team wants to infect them with parasitic bacteria Wolbachia which causes sterility and produces nonviable eggs in mosquitoesThese lsquogood bugsrsquo as the company puts them would then be released in the locations where wild mosquitoes are a constant menace to humanityChildren of the nightPICINSTAGRAMzohrankmamdaniJune 1 became every parentrsquos nightmare when New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani proudly announced on X that he had signed a temporary executive order to ensure that children of all ages in the city could stay up past their bedtime to watch the Knicks play in the NBA finals As Mayor his role involves making hard decisions yet this was not one of them he was quoted saying Not a plane baptismPICINSTAGRAMliljupiterAt Galeatildeo International Airport in Rio de Janeiro before flying to Newarkthe Brazil national football team received a peculiar World Cup sendoff when airport firefighters ldquobaptisedrdquo their plane by spraying arches of water over it as it taxied down the runway Football is always that serious The symbolic farewell carries added significance for a nation that lives and breathes football1000 MArilyns on her 100thPICINSTAGRAMVerifiedteaNear the famous ldquoMarilyn Forever Statuerdquo this Monday Palm Springsrsquo 1000 individuals came together dressed up as Marilyn Monroe to celebrate what would have been her 100th birthday and break the World Record for the largest gathering of Marilyn lookalikesSmooth CriminalOver the past few months there have been continual damages to cars and their ownersrsquo bank accounts in Scotland The culprit has finally been captured but only on camera A bright green parakeet sitting on cars and dismantling windscreen wipers for the love of the game or just for the delicious rubbery flavour terrorising the areaGanja grannyTing Kiong 63 was arrested at Lagosrsquos Murtala Muhammed International Airport after Nigeriarsquos drug enforcement agency allegedly found 31 kilograms of cannabis hidden in two large suitcases